noon
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Is noon a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (now rare) The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.Examples: "So the sad mother at the noon of night / From bloody Memphis stole her silent flight […]."; "When night was at its noon I heard a voice chanting the Koran in sweetest accents […]."Synonyms: noon of nightarchaiccountableuncountable
2. (obsolete) The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.Synonyms: nones, middaycountableobsoleteuncountable
3. (figurative) The highest point; culmination.Examples: "In the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so soon, and so fatally, overshadowed."Synonyms: capstonecountablefigurativelyuncountable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To relax or sleep around midday.Examples: "We presently turned just aside from the trail into an episode of beautiful prairie, one of a succession along the plateau at the crest of the range. At this height of about five thousand feet, the snows remain until June. In this fair, oval, forest-circled prairie of my nooning, the grass was long and succulent, as if it grew in the bed of a drained lake."; "Between six and nine we made ten miles, which was plenty for a horse carrying triple—man, woman, and armor; then we stopped for a long nooning under some trees by a limpid brook."; "Well, we crossed and nooned, lying around on purpose to give them a good lead, and when we hit the trail back in these sand-hills, there he was, not a mile ahead, and you can see there was no chance to get around"Synonyms: sleepintransitive
noun (English)
1. (countable) An ethnic people who occupy western Senegal.countable
2. (uncountable) The language of these people.uncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary